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Originally Posted by Von Due
[...] He took off and crashed his plane into the sea. Serious business indeed.
That story was told in the book "A Higher Call" in case someone want to read about pilots on the other side. [...]
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Wasn't "A higher call" about Stigler and Brown? Who was the german pilot who crashed his plane into the sea?
Even more OT: Regarding Stigler and the B17, I read in Deighton's "Fighters" that it happened several times, that some german pilots accompanied damaged british fighters home, which, as they said, "would never have been possible in Russia" (all WW2).
P.S. "Fighters" and "Bombers" (both by Len Deighton) are two real good books about the Battle of Britain (which wasn't one) and the bomber swarms and their interceptors. "Fighters" is a history book concentrating on the machines, "Bombers" is fictional and a novel, but footing in reality using changed names and describing real incidents.